Polesitter Lucas Petersson claimed his first BRDC British F3 win
with a lights to flag victory in race two at Snetterton this
morning. He took the flag over three seconds clear of near namesake
Benjamin Pedersen who soared from seventh to the podium, with Neil
Verhagen climbing to third from 11th on the grid.

Kaylen Frederick claimed fourth, a second and a half away from
the podium, with Nazim Azman taking his best result of the year so
far with fifth. Clement Novalak climbed from 15th on the grid to
take sixth ahead of Double R's Hampus Ericsson, with race one
winner Johnathan Hoggard eighth from 16th.

Manuel Maldonado and Pavan Ravishankar completed the top-10.

At the start, Petersson had a great getaway from the reverse
grid pole, immediately building an advantage over Fortec's Kris
Wright, while further behind Ayrton Simmons ran wide at Riches and
dropped to the tail of the field. Pedersen, on a lap one charge had
worked his way up to second, though Petersson was already leading
by over two seconds.

Behind, the majority of the rest of the field was bunched up
behind Wright, and heading to Riches on lap two, Josh Mason
challenged Nazim Azman for position, going around the outside but
running wide and hitting the barriers lightly, bringing out the
safety car and wiping out Petersson's lead. With the reverse grid
format meaning yesterday's podium drivers started at the back,
there were strong opening laps for Johnathan Hoggard, Clement
Novalak, and Kiern Jewiss, who climbed to seventh, 10th and
eighth respectively from 16th, 15th and 14th
respectively.

The race resumed on lap four, and Petersson again began to build
a lead, while behind there was some fierce racing as several
drivers challenging Wright, including a three wide moment at
Agostini between the American, Novalak and Azman.

Petersson led by three quarters of a second after the restart,
while the rest of the order started to settle down, though there
was more drama on lap six as Jewiss, who had climbed to sixth
pitted to repair front wing damage sustained after tapping Azman at
Wilson, while Simmons endured more drama after contact
with Chaimongkol sent him down the order again .

By that point, Petersson's lead was up to 1.6 seconds. The
Swede extended his lead by around half a second a lap until
the end of the race to take the flag by over three seconds from
Pedersen, who clinched his first British F3 podium, one and a half
seconds clear of Verhagen, who gained eight places on his starting
position.

Frederick in fourth was another to make big gains, climbing from
10th to take fourth, while Novalak, Ericsson and Hoggard gained
nine, six and eight places respectively.

The top-three drivers were presented with their trophies on the
podium by BRDC member and British GT racer Bradley Ellis.

The third BRDC British F3 race of the weekend is due to start at
14.10, with live streaming available on the official series
website.